Patsy Kensit has said her Emmerdale character, Sadie King, may have grown since she was last in the Dales, but she is “still a cow”.<\/p>\n
The actress will return to the soap after a 20-year absence, reprising her role as the glamorous, scheming villain.<\/p>\n
Sadie first arrived in the soap in 2004 as the wife of Jimmy King and left two years later following affairs with Cain Dingle, Robert Sugden, and her brother-in-law Matthew, but Kensit said Sadie may have acquired new depths since we last saw her.<\/p>\n
The soap star said: “I think it’s really smart what [producer] Laura Shaw and the writers have done.<\/p>\n
“We want to find out about the real person because obviously that’s really interesting for me to play and I think for the audience to see where she is in her life.<\/p>\n
“You know, what does this woman really have and what does she really value? Does she have any values?<\/p>\n
“I think that that’s interesting to explore as a woman and with the things that we go through in life \u2013 going through the change and all of that stuff.<\/p>\n
“And you know, she’s on her own. Does she have brothers, sisters, a father, a mother? She was probably birthed by a jackal, she’s so awful.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s a bittersweet kind of side to her, and it’d be nice that maybe that would come through.<\/p>\n
“But she’s still a cow.”<\/p>\n
While little is known about what brings Sadie back to the village, it has been revealed she will have a run-in with Kim Tate, played by Claire King.<\/p>\n
Kensit said: “I got to do some scenes with Claire King the other day and we took it old school. Old school b******.”<\/p>\n
She said of Sadie: “She’s always been one of the favourite roles I’ve ever had because I’m pathologically polite as a person and she just… isn’t. And so, some of the things I get to say and the putdowns and everything.<\/p>\n
“I used to live vicariously through her because I would never, ever talk to anybody like that.<\/p>\n
“So, I had just so much fun and when I got the call [to come back] it was just a hard yes for me.”<\/p>\n
Kensit, who went on to play Faye Morton in Holby City between 2007 and 2019, added: “It’s overwhelming when you come back, because it’s such a well-oiled machine, and everyone that works on the show, the cast, the crew, all the hair and make-up departments, costume, everyone is so good.<\/p>\n
“It’s one of the best places I’ve ever worked and coming back, I’m just so impressed. At the studio, I was walking around saying, ‘It’s so glamorous’.<\/p>\n
“Because, you know, I’ve been working in fields and stuck on an ice-cold beach, shooting a movie. Then to come back and have the proper make-up room and somewhere warm and dry to change and I don’t have to do it behind a bush.”<\/p>\n
However, while Kensit has been welcomed back to Emmerdale with open arms, she hinted that Sadie gets a more hostile reception, saying: “I get slapped to s***.”<\/p>\n
Emmerdale airs weeknights on Virgin Media One and ITV1.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n